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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Why I am Not a Christian"
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), A Free Man's Worship 1903
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Conquest of Happiness

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